CSA and the Youth: Understanding climate resilient practices

In recent years much attention has been given to the changing climates and the impact it has on the environment, hence the creation of different measurements of mitigation and adaptation. While it is evident that all aspects of our lives are affected by environmental threats, there is one that bears major impacts and importance because our food security and world’s livelihood depend on it: agriculture.

Today, agriculture faces three challenges:

1) Ensuring food security through increased productivity and income

2) Adapting to climate change

3) Contributing to climate change mitigation.

A Climate-smart mentality for a sustainable and resilient agriculture

According to the FAO’s website, CSA is “agriculture that sustainably increases productivity, resilience (adaptation), reduces/removes greenhouse gases (mitigation), and enhances achievement of national food security and development goal” (1).

In 2010 the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) launched the concept, promoting it as an approach to develop technical, policy and investment conditions to achieve…